Any of your children have/had roseola?

I just took my lo to the doctors today because she had a rash all over her body, was cranky, had diarrhea but no fever. The doctor thinks its roseola. It's a viral rash common in children between 6 months to 2 years old. It's contagious and not sure where my lo got it. She does not go to daycare and has not been around other children. My doctor said maybe from putting her in the shopping cart. Any of you have experience with this? If so, does it keep coming back?

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No, by the time the rash and diarrhea come, its over and I think it's like chicken pox in that the baby develops immunity to it. But with my oldest DD, it was a nasty fever for a few days, then the fever broke, and then the rash and runny poop came (sort of the virus leaving the body). If your LO didn't have a fever, maybe it's a different virus?

We did not get it diagnosed, but my son picked up an illness that I diagnosed as roseola after a visit to the Dr.s office. According to every website I looked at roseola is unique from some of the other childhood illnesses because it comes with a particularly high fever (like 103) for a longer time, like 5 days, and then the rash, so it surprises me that your son didn't have a fever. However, I am not a Dr so I'd probably trust them anyways. There are several similar childhood diseases like 5th disease (Roseola is considered 6th disease). They are pretty harmless and once they have the disease, the have immunity and will not get reinfected.

You may want to do a little online research yourself, because roseola follows a specific pattern from what I've seen, and I haven't seen diahrrea as a symptom. Even if it's not roseola, its probably not a big deal, just one of those infections they get!

Thank you. She was really hot 2 days ago so I thought she had a fever. I checked with a thermometer and it was normal. Maybe the fever broke by the time I checked it. There was no fever today along with the rash.

DD just had Roseola. She started with a fever last Sunday and had a fever until Tuesday. Wednesday night she started to show some rashy looking spots and Thursday she had a rash on her torso, face and back. She didn't have a bad rash compared to some of the ones photographed on google. And it was Doc diagnosed, I didn't diagnose her.

The kind of fever my ODD had with rosella could not be missed: she burned 103-104 for 4 days non stop. I spent the days dosing her with Motrin and sitting in tubs of lukewarm water. As soon as the fever broke, the rash and diarrhea came. So either your baby tolerated it really well, or it's not the exact diagnosis. Either way it's probably all over :)

Viral rashes are really hard to exactly diagnose without a blood draw and seeing how the doctors wouldn't advice any different there is no need... They think my older son had this when he was just over a year, had a fever for a couple days then this rash, they say by the time the rash hits they aren't contagious anymore...rosella isn't really serious and didn't bother my son one bit! The rash isn't itchy so he just went about his business and it went away...offer lots of water/juice/milk and even pedialite if the diarrhea is bad but your LO should be all better soon!

My son just had it a couple of weeks ago. Totally caught me off guard. He had 3 days of a low fever and I really didn't think too much of it until the fever stopped and two days later he was covered in a rash. I could see having missed the fever completely, especially since it was barely there during the day and went up after bedtime. It would be 99 or 100 during the day but over 101 at night, the highest it got was 103 but it went back down quickly. He isn't in day care, he has some little baby friends but no one else has had or gotten it so it had to be from somewhere just out and about. Luckily, roseola isn't any more trouble than just being unattractive in most cases.